Death is a festival
Subtitle: funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil
By: João José Reis ; translated by H. Sabrina Gledhill.
Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History -- 19th century; Cemeteries -- Brazil -- Salvador -- History; Insurgency -- Brazil -- Salvador; Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- Brésil -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- Brésil -- Salvador -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Cimetières -- Brésil -- Salvador -- Histoire; Révoltes -- Brésil -- Histoire; Salvador (Brazil) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Salvador (Brésil) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle; Brésil -- Moeurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
Work titles: Morte é uma festa.
Notes: "Revised edition of a book that was originally published in Brazil in 1991 as A morte é uma festa"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index.